What is H-1B as MAGA 'civil war' breaks out with Elon Musk and the far-right

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : The billionaire - who has been selected to head up the new Department of Government Efficiency - backs the H-1B visa programme and has called for more highly skilled workers in the industry.
54% : But in a sharp departure from his usual alarmist message around immigration generally, Trump told a podcast this year that he wants to give automatic green cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges.
47% : After he became president, Trump in 2017 issued a 'Buy American and Hire American' executive order, which directed Cabinet members to suggest changes to ensure H-1B visas were awarded to the highest-paid or most-skilled applicants to protect American workers.
46% : 'If you want your TEAM to win the championship, you need to recruit top talent wherever they may be,' Musk wrote on X, saying in another post that 'bringing in via legal immigration the top ~0.1% of engineering talent' is 'essential for America to keep winning'.Technology companies say H-1B visas for skilled workers, used by software engineers and others in the tech industry, are critical for hard-to-fill positions.
42% : It is the fundamental limiting factor in Silicon Valley.'Which Trump supporters back it?
36% : He and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Trump has tasked with finding ways to cut the federal government, weighed in, defend the tech industry's need to bring in foreign workers.
25% : Loomer claimed the move was 'not America First policy' and said the tech executives who have aligned themselves with Trump were doing so to enrich themselves.
22% : As a presidential candidate in 2016, Trump called the H-1B visa program 'very bad' and 'unfair' for US workers.
22% : During his 2024 campaign for president, as he made immigration his signature issue, Trump said immigrants in the country illegally are 'poisoning the blood of our country' and promised to carry out the largest deportation operation in US history.

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